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CITY OF ORONO <br />HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA <br />In the Matter of <br />Stephenson Application for Amendment to <br />Conditional Use Permit and for Variance <br />AFFIDAVIT OF RICHARD CHALFEN <br />Richard Chalfen, being first duly sworn on oath, deposes and states as follows: <br />1. All matters sworn to in this affidavit are made based upon my personal knowledge or upon <br />sound information and belief. <br />2. I am a resident at 350 Brown Road South, Orono, Minnesota. I purchased my residence on <br />November 1,2001. <br />3. My residence is situated on a parcel of property (“my property ”) about twelve acres in size. <br />My property is roughly in the shape of a backwards letter “L.” A significant portion of the <br />upright leg of this backwards L consists of a wetland area. That leg of my property extends <br />along the entire eastern boundary of a residential property located at 1850 Fox Ridge Road, <br />which since sometime in 2001 has been owned by Mr. and Mrs. Revis Stephenson m (“the <br />Stephensons”). The Stephensons’ back “yard” includes a small portion of that wetland that <br />extends throughout most of the upright leg of my property. The Stephensons’ back yard is <br />plainly visible from various parts of my property, including the area around my residence. <br />4. At the time I purchased my property, I was unaware of any plans or pending applications by <br />the Stephensons to perform any work on the back yard of their home. 1 soon learned. <br />however, that the Stephensons had significant filling and grading plans for the back )‘ard. <br />The way 1 learned of it was by observing great mounds of dirt being dumped in their back